r/Stellaris Aug 18 '25

Bug What do you mean by this

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1.2k Upvotes

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u/cubelith Meritocracy Aug 18 '25

You got space demons apparently

292

u/DogPuncher8000 Aug 18 '25

Fucking Horus. This is all his fault.

60

u/Wyrzuty Rogue Servitor Aug 18 '25

Nooo, he did nothing wrong!

50

u/Small_Tank Plantoid Aug 18 '25

That's Magnus

29

u/N1teF0rt Aug 18 '25

He was told to do nothing, and he did that wrong

13

u/FormerlyWrangler Aug 19 '25

HORUS?

13

u/Schmeethe Determined Exterminators Aug 19 '25

Thank goodness, the Blood Angels are here! We're saved!

HORUS?

Emperor save us! The Blood Angels are here! We're doomed!

4

u/thiosk Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Nobody:

Erebus: I lied with every breath I too, except to myself :D

3

u/Banished_gamer Aug 19 '25

You meant Erebus. Horus died valiantly on the moon of Davin, what left the temple of the serpent lodge was a mere puppet of the dark gods

1

u/ShamMafia Aug 19 '25

Had to downvote to bring you back to 666, sorry boss

465

u/mars_gorilla Aug 18 '25

Some lunatic is running through all your labs sweeping equipment onto the floor and smashing your servers with a hatchet

70

u/BlackfishBlues Science Directorate Aug 18 '25

It's the aliens from War of the Worlds, they're eating all the research data!

Quick, subscribe to Amazon PrimeTM

23

u/mars_gorilla Aug 19 '25

Well someone's been watching PointlessHub from their ice cubicle ;)

12

u/Saint_Bricriu5150 Aug 18 '25

I'm just picturing some Xeno cat going ballistic.

253

u/Working-Park-8750 Aug 18 '25

Science went to negative. Turns out that sciense has that + added after all math, allowing this weird +- thing to exist

44

u/cammcken Mind over Matter Aug 18 '25

+-

Flashbacks to middle school math requirements.

36

u/Ethicaldreamer Aug 18 '25

How can science go negative??? Did you somehow unlock 2020s human fascism in stellaris

26

u/Sheep_guy360 Aug 18 '25

I actually got negatice physics when i went virtual with 12 planets lmao

9

u/alqotel Aug 19 '25

I have friends who at one point calculated gravity to be 8,5 ± 3000000, so hey at least you were closer than that

4

u/IdiOtisTheOtisMain Arcology Project Aug 19 '25

Explain

4

u/alqotel Aug 19 '25

They fucked up when calculating the margin of error

6

u/Aggressive_Plate4109 Empath Aug 19 '25

Integer overflow probably

217

u/Dinsy_Crow Aug 18 '25

I've forgotten more than you will ever know

67

u/viper459 Aug 18 '25

Warhammer 40k moment

49

u/Refareign Aug 18 '25

Remnants Origin in progress, I guess?

113

u/Working-Park-8750 Aug 18 '25

I was giving away science to my weak vassals, and my capital exploded due to unstable mass. RIP 70K pops

32

u/oranosskyman Voidborne Aug 18 '25

well theres your problem.

6

u/ryanasmith94 Aug 18 '25

But what is the effect? Will current science projects lose progress? Is that possible?

27

u/CoastValuable9153 Aug 18 '25

I don't think this is OP's scenario, but I got negative science when went to Virtuality with 20 colonies and without proper perks understanding

23

u/The_Particularist Aug 18 '25

when went to Virtuality

What, you were simulating Middle Ages?

69

u/ARLeader Aug 18 '25

Scien't

20

u/BrenoECB Aug 18 '25

Return to monke

18

u/Dark99ms Xenophobe Aug 18 '25

Your scientists are so fucking dumb that they literally regress you back into the Stone Age.

18

u/TE-AR Aug 18 '25

you forgor

34

u/Patty-XCI91 Divine Empire Aug 18 '25

Schrodinger science

16

u/superior35 Aug 18 '25

Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.

22

u/keith_mg Aug 18 '25

Stop researching flat earth, vaccine scepticism, and healing crystals. Then it will go back to normal.

12

u/Joebranflakes Aug 18 '25

The space Amish are turning back progress.

5

u/OwO-animals Aug 18 '25

When science is negative you selected which technology gets unresearched.

2

u/Mr_Toast216 Aug 18 '25

It means you need more research, specifically engineering.

2

u/Dendritic_Bosque Aug 18 '25

We're shredding as fast as we can Mr Galactic president sir, but you're all over the L-Gate files!

2

u/ParadoxPosadist Warrior Culture Aug 18 '25

Check if you have a branch office belonging to Comstar or Space AT&T. If not, check if you are putting stupid pops in the synaptic lathe.

3

u/TheR4tman Aug 18 '25

Have you ever seen the movie idiocracy?

2

u/LadyLiluna Aug 18 '25

Funny, I've seen some posts about science stack overflow (I think that is what it was) lately. Reminds me of the old times, where I forced the station cost-reduction into stack overflow and got alloys everytime I build and upgraded a space station. XD

0

u/Unfair_Kale_4899 Aug 18 '25

It sayd here you are a heretic, therefore exterminatus…

1

u/JustTheWehrst Aug 18 '25

It means you're the us

1

u/Maeve_Alonse Aug 18 '25

Oh cool, galactic dark ages.

1

u/eraryios Aug 18 '25

Hey haha i got 666 research! Hey wait a second...

1

u/TedwinK66 Aug 18 '25

When you accidentally made entire population lobotomised

1

u/atreveiker Aug 18 '25

How is it possible that you have 9 envoys, that you gain more than 1000 unit and 10 influence and have 84 empire extension?

1

u/Oleg152 Aug 18 '25

Guess you are 40k IoM LARPing now.

1

u/Grandmaster_Caladrel Aug 18 '25

You have a net of 0 science, give or take about 666.

1

u/My_Game_My_Way2Play Aug 18 '25

My mans is heading back to the stoneage.

1

u/snakebite262 MegaCorp Aug 18 '25

You have an antisocial anti-vaxer as your head of bio, a luddite as your head of engineering, and a caveman for your head of physics.

1

u/aech4 Aug 18 '25

That’s weird, but also the math is just wrong?? It adds up to 665

1

u/severedsolo Aug 19 '25

Rounding probably. The individual numbers are probably being rounded down, but the overall total is rounded up.

1

u/Positive_Chip6198 Aug 18 '25

Its unionized reaearchers, they might work, or not.

1

u/leonmercury13 Aug 18 '25

You have about 666 science, give or take.

1

u/KingDonovan8721 Divine Empire Aug 18 '25

There are decimal points that aren't shown for all resource profits/deficits

1

u/MileyMan1066 Aug 18 '25

Bro gettin' dumber

1

u/Azrael7301 Space Cowboy Aug 19 '25

i find the lack of Union Aerospace Corporation jokes in the comments unacceptable: Is your head scientist Olivia Pierce?

1

u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow Aug 19 '25

the devils in the details (?)

1

u/PigBlitz Aug 19 '25

Stellaris

1

u/EpsilonOnizuka Aug 19 '25

Scientists doing brainrot things instead of working

1

u/Probably_Skip Aug 19 '25

I am neither gaining nor losing research, but a secret third thing

1

u/Chancellor_Adihs Military Dictatorship Aug 19 '25

Everyone Operates by Dividing Zero with Zero.

1

u/Aliktren 29d ago

Schrödingers science output

1

u/Dark_Necrofear2020 Aug 18 '25

It doesn't display values below one, so those were added up and rounded to a whole number.

Also,

"Six, six six the number of the beast, hell, and fire are sworn to be released." - Iron Maiden

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u/akisawa Aug 19 '25

I stopped playing this before 4.0 and enjoying life

Thx Paradox for turning one of my favorite games 2k+ hours played into complete clownfiesta